Ghana's good election shows it can done

Rachel Keeler in Accra

For a country that had run four increasingly transparent, peaceful and inclusive elections over the last 16 years, Ghana’s fifth attempt at multiparty democracy this week was met with puzzling anxiety.

International headlines leading into the December 7 presidential and parliamentary polls coalesced around a basic question: after violence and fraud had destroyed three African elections in one year—Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria—everyone wondered whether Ghana would make it out alive. ...

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